Du recensement au sondage de la population. (French)

In 2002, French Parliament adopted a reform of the national Census which partly replace the traditional enumeration by sampling technique. This decision, prepared by the state statisticians, was not subject to any political debate. This is a great difference with, by example, the American situation. In United States, a similar project for introducing sampling technique in the census has been leading to a national controversy for more than twenty years. This gap offers an interesting sociological perspective on democratic institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En 2002, le parlement français a adopté sans heurts un projet de loi organisant l'introduction de techniques de sondages dans la procédure de recensement de la population. Cette facilité contraste avec la situation américaine où l'idée même d'utilisation du sondage darts cette procédure prévue dans l'article 1 de la Constitution alimente depuis des années une controverse nationale. Les réformes du recensement offrent ainsi l'occasion, à travers l'analyse des places réservées au champ scientifique dans les démocraties, d'alimenter le programme de la sociologie politique comparée. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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